Advancing Innovation Processes to Solve Social Problems

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Featured Publication

Design for Social Impact Workshop

2008

How can we unleash and leverage the power of the global design community on some of the world's most intractable problems? How can we increase the collaboration between the design industry and the the social sector? And do so in a systematic and sustainable way? The Rockefeller Foundation engaged Continuum to lead a conversation with some of the world's top designers at the Bellagio Center to explore questions like these - questions with big implications for the industry as a whole.

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Publications

  • 2009 Case Study: SunNight Solar

    2009
    It’s easy to take lighting for granted – especially if you live in a developed part of the world and your electric company delivers a steady stream of power to your door. >

  • Design for Social Impact

    July 2008
    These days, you can’t touch anything—from a vegetable peeler to a toothbrush, a cell phone to a sneaker—without seeing (and feeling) the difference design can make and the commercial success it can help foster. >
TURN ON THE LIGHTS:
Smart Power-Grid for the 21st Century

“How we produce and deliver energy, while coping with the catastrophic threat of climate change, will define our future.”

Special Foundation Report in America’s Quarterly

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